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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1910
Page
11
A dense column lists funeral directors and burial vaults with addresses and phones, followed by job ads for barbers, linemen, and other trades, plus wanted notices for workers, real estate sales, loans, and various services including laundry and massage.
Applications for nine women cooks at wages from 3 to 9 dollars a week were listed with the state free employment bureau. Responses to letters to Indiana factory operators are arriving, with forty requests for help received Wednesday morning. The notice also lists multiple male and female positions including carpenters, machinists, stenographers, cooks, cleaners, and various trades across Indiana and South Bend.
Warren F. Stone head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers warned that in the next hours a strike by 32,000 engineers on sixty roads could paralyze western traffic. He said no strike before night and that mediators would meet employers and then the men. Demands average a 15 percent raise while companies offer about 8 percent.
United States Marshal Alonzo Boyd seized 800 million bacteria per teaspoonful catsup found to be adulterated. The action covered 416 cases from Bement-Rae & Co and 287 cases plus 57 crates from Hulman & Co. Food and Drug Commissioner Kitchen said both firms were innocent, having bought the product from J. Weller Co of Cincinnati on a contract to supply pure catsup.
Chicago case of Richard Alupard who took a beefsteak from a police station window and received three months in jail. He claimed the theft was to endure a starving winter and to experience life in jail for food.
Robert Detrich, driver for National Starch Works, crossed the Pennsylvania tracks at Madison Avenue on Tuesday to miss a train but collided with an opposing train. He was bruised and knocked from the wagon. the horse was knocked down and its leg broken. Humane Officer Merrill shot the animal.
A long transfer list shows numerous parties including Mark D Levey to Anne Levey, Pauline Blake to Daniel Rugs, and Frank Ittenbach to John Ittenbach among many others. Properties include various lots, blocks, subdivisions, and outlots with sizes like 40x130 feet and 50x120 feet, locations on Harrison street Oakland avenue and Quill street, with sums ranging from $1 to $14,000.
The record lists births from Thomas and Sarah Logan at 1215 Finley Avenue a girl and William and Bertha Ludwig at 1630 West Vermont Street a boy. Other entries include Arthur and Anna Elisenhour 1543 East Nineteenth Street a girl Edwin and Hattie Ramsey 540 North Weystore Avenue a boy William and Ellen Dunn 1657 West Ohio Street a boy Isaac and Pearl Collins 32 North Bradley Street a boy Mose and Bessi Pichalek 10 Poplar Joan and Florence Essex 530 North Cable Street a boy Harry and Anna Sommer 1022 South West Street a boy William and Katie Graham 834 East Maryland Street a boy Thomas and Lulu Thomas 110 North Beville Avenue a boy Alonzo and Retell Mills 126 South Elder Avenue a girl.
The list presents pairs of individuals: Howard Boring with Mary E. Murray, Hazel B. Green with Carney C. Sanders, Estill Mitchell with Emma Howard, George Wilson with Laura Alberring, William L. Doolan with Anna M. Munn, Claude Holliday with Mamie L. Crawford, and William L. Leare with Clemmie E. Williams.
Frances A Walker 53 of 2885 Hillside Avenue Brights disease. Charles C Stepp 60 at Central Insane Hospital chronic nephritis. Thomas Roberts 36 380 West Fifteenth Street lobar pneumonia. James Dennis 32 City Hospital pulmonary tuberculosis. Harriet Brown 52 Central Insane Hospital epileptic convulsions. Samuel Smith T4 2130 Ringgold Avenue senility. Alpheus L Shefield 21 5135 West Michigan Street pulmonary tuberculosis. Kenneth Kettler 1 043 Tecumseh Street jobar pneumonia. William Green 76 5526 University Avenue lobar pneumonia.
Realty investing company on Bath and Delaware streets warns expansion with two story factory at 180 Palmer street using steel valued at 1000. Yi Harding plans ope of one story frame at Michigan and Tenth for 875. Liberty and George streets add construction valued at 17000. Lockwood repairs at 1605 West Morris street for 50. Indianapolis pumping station brick stack project at $4000. Sam Perkins at 23-30 West Wabash street undertakes fre lose for 75.
A telephone message from Harrow Ont reports a man armed with a loaded rifle and two revolvers is barricaded, holding off the entire Harrow police force after an attempted debt collection by force. Help was requested from Windsor authorities.
Representative Morrison will depart Washington Wednesday evening to spend the holidays at home.
Sailors aboard about 50 000 in the U S Navy prepare for a Christmas at sea with limited shopping. Each ship schedules sports from boat races to boxing matches and holds minstrel shows, vaudeville acts, and two Christmas trees. Gifts flow from home on the Culgoa bound for the English Channel.
The Indianapolis Columbus and Southern Traction Company timetable effective November 14, 1910 shows connections at Seymour with B&O and Southern Indiana lines. It runs from Indianapolis to Edinburg with limited stops south of Edinburg and a 2:03 p m departure from Seymour. Contact agents and offices in Columbus, Indiana for rates and official times.
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